AMD Radeon RX 480 VS NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050
amd
Brand8GB GDDR5
Memory2304
Cores256 GB/s
BandwidthRadeon RX 480
nvidia
Brand2GB GDDR5
Memory640
Cores112.1 GB/s
BandwidthGeForce GTX 1050
AMD Radeon RX 480
Radeon RX 480
$229 • Jun 2016
GeForce GTX 1050
$109 • Oct 2016
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050
Specs Comparison
| Specification | AMD Radeon RX 480 | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 |
|---|---|---|
| Memory Size | 8 GB | 2 GB |
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| TDP | 150 W | 75 W |
| Core Clock | N/A | N/A |
| Boost Clock | 1266 MHz | 1455 MHz |
| Memory Bandwidth | 256 GB/s | 112.1 GB/s |
| Process Size | 14nm | 14nm |
| Architecture | GCN 4.0 | Pascal |
| Shading Units | 2304 | 640 |
| RT Cores | N/A | N/A |
| TMUs | 144 | 40 |
| ROPs | 32 | 32 |
| Memory Bus | 256-bit | 128-bit |
| Memory Clock | 2000 MHz | 1752 MHz |
| Pixel Rate | 40.51 GPixel/s | 46.56 GPixel/s |
| Texture Rate | 256 GTexel/s | 112.1 GTexel/s |
| FP32 Performance | 5.834 GFLOPS | 1.862 GFLOPS |
| L2 Cache | 2.00 MB | 1.00 MB |
| Die Size | 232 mm² | 132 mm² |
| Transistors | 5700 Million | 3300 Million |
| Required PSU | 450 W | 250 W |
| Power Connectors | 1x 6-pin | None |
| Bus Interface | PCIe 3.0 x16 | PCIe 3.0 x16 |
| DirectX | 12 | 12.1 |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | 1.3 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| Foundry | GlobalFoundries | Samsung |
Comparison in Synthetic Benchmarks
3DMark Time Spy
Synthetic DirectX 12 benchmark that measures GPU performance in gaming workloads
Graphics Score
AMD Radeon RX 480
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050
Geekbench 6
Cross-platform benchmark that measures GPU compute performance using OpenCL and Metal APIs
OpenCL Score
AMD Radeon RX 480
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050
GFXBench 5.0
Cross-platform 3D graphics benchmark suite that measures GPU performance across different APIs
Aztec Ruins High (FPS)
AMD Radeon RX 480
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050
PassMark G2D
Comprehensive 2D graphics benchmark that measures GPU performance in various graphics operations
G2D Mark
AMD Radeon RX 480
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050
Game Benchmarks Comparison (9 benchmarks)
PRO EVOLUTION SOCCER 2019
Darksiders III
Call of Cthulhu
AMD Radeon RX 480 Wins!
Based on 9 benchmarks across 3 games
AMD Radeon RX 480
AMD • 8GB GDDR5
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050
NVIDIA • 2GB GDDR5
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